In addressing the abuse crisis, Ms. Ghisoni called for the dynamic involvement of the whole people of God. She said, The laity, the consecrated persons are not to be the mere executors of orders by clerics but are all servants in the one vineyard, making their individual contributions and remaining involved in the discernment that the Spirit suggests to the church. Ms. Ghisoni, undersecretary for the Dicastery for the Laity, Family, and Life and the mother of two, knew she was touching on a very sensitive topic in the Vatican but she spoke boldly with parrhesia, as the pope, who was present today, had encouraged on the first day of the summit.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he has told the State Department to ban the return of Hoda Muthana, a 24 year old U.S. ndash;born woman who left Alabama for Syria in 2014 and is now detained in a Kurdish camp. ”I have instructed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and he fully agrees, not to allow Hoda Muthana back into the Country ” Trump wrote on Twitter. Britain 's Home Secretary Sajid Javid, meanwhile, has moved to revoke the citizenship of teenager Shamima Begum, who left London to marry an ISIS fighter in Syria four years ago and has begged to be allowed to return with her newborn son.

Veiled women reportedly associated with ISIS walk under the supervision of a female fighter from the Syrian Democratic Forces in northeastern Syria on Sunday. Over the weekend, President Trump demanded European allies repatriate their citizens captured as ISIS fighters. Bulent Kilic AFP Getty Images hide caption

Puducherry Chief Minister V Narayanasamy on Monday ended his sit in protest at midnight after a meeting with Lieutenant Governor Kiran Bedi, saying "partial success" was achieved on various demands. The temporary truce followed a five hour meeting on the sixth day of the chief minister's protest outside the Raj Niwas demanding the governor's recall. He accuses Kiran Bedi of acting as a "BJP agent" and blocking his government's welfare schemes.

NEW DELHI: Pointing to domestic challenges like agrarian crisis, declining employment opportunities and prevalence of divisive forces, former prime minister Manmohan Singh here on Sunday painted a grim picture of the Indian economy and said the jobless growth was fast turning into the "jobloss growth".Addressing a convocation at the Delhi School of Management, Singh blamed the "slipshod" implementation of the goods and services tax (GST) for damaging the vibrant small and unorganised sector.

Addressing a convocation at the Delhi School of Management, Singh blamed the "slipshod" implementation of the goods and services tax (GST) for damaging the vibrant small and unorganised sector."The domestic challenges of our economy are daunting in their complexity and devastating in their impact on society. The grave agrarian crisis, the declining employment opportunities, the pervasive environmental degradation and above all the divisive forces at work are obvious," he said.

Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland has urged Canadians in Haiti to take commercial flights out of the crisis hit Caribbean country while they still can. In a conference call from the Munich Security Conference, an annual gathering of top global defence and foreign policy officials, Freeland told media that her department is following developments in Haiti very closely.

President Donald Trump on Friday declared the southern border of the United States to be a national emergency, catapulting the country into uncertain legal and political battles as he seeks to fulfill a campaign promise that eluded him for two years.